Good Clean Reads

“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible.  The Life Force experimenting with forms…you for one, me for another.  The Universe has shouted itself alive.  We are one of the shouts.”  -Ray Bradbury

I have been struck by the power of the life force of late. It is a force that animates everything we do, but we hardly recognize it as such, except...

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door shall be opened.”   -The Bible

The more that I pursue projects that I love, the more that life says yes. I feel like I have discovered a basic precept of success. That really we are moved by what we love and that the...

“From a certain point onward, there is no turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”  -Franz Kafka

These days the most painful part of life isn’t what happens to me, but rather what happens in me.  On my recent 50^thbirthday, a close friend of mine dropped the ball. It wasn’t just her missing the party because of a work commitment, it was a total absence of contact for the entire week...

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”  -Albert Schweitzer

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One of the most obvious, if least utilized practices of positivity is creating a strong social network. I am not talking about digital friends here, but rather actual 3D situations where you do things with people you like. Ironically, all of the hyper online social connectivity is leaving many people with less time and opportunities for real interactions. So I have been starting positivity circles...

by Anastasia Strgar

I wouldn’t say I was surprised when I discovered Kim Kardashian’s divorce the other day, but I will say I was a little disgusted. Any respect that I had for her previously (which was very little, mind you) disappeared in a pouf when I read her statement about the divorce, which said something along the lines of expecting a fairytale… Although we’d all love to be Cinderella, the...

“Love and magic have a lot in common.  They enrich the soul, delight the heart, and they both take practice.”   From my birthday invitation

I celebrated my 50^thbirthday this week and was blessed by the presence of lots of friends old and new, an incredible troupe of fire dancers, a Houdini-like magician and an iconic fortune teller. The potluck was a gourmet feast, the local park building a...

This year, Good Clean Love would like to announce their first annual “Disguises of Love” Costume Contest! This Halloween, send us your photos of you or you and your sweetheart in your most creative costume. The winner will receive a 4oz bottle of Indian Spice love oil to keep those nights spicy and warm all winter long. Send your photos to ana@goodcleanlove.com by November 7th and we’ll announce...

by Anastasia Strgar

Over the weekend I attended a seminar about how to revolutionize education in American schools. In this seminar, the speakers discussed the institutionalized nature of the American school system- how the average new teacher quits after 5 years, even sooner if working in inner city schools surrounded by children who know the names of different types of pot or guns before they...